Fort Morgan High School - Pacemaker Yearbook (Fort Morgan, CO)

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K Drama Hlled This school year for. in addiTion To The musical, There were The performance of Two one acTs and The addiTion of a winTer play. The Two one acT plays. The PerspecTive and SchuberT's LasT Serenade were performed in De- cember aT ForT Morgan 's Hrsf drama mee T. The Per- specTive was direcfed by Lynn Gerfge and involved a group of people who were porfrayed To be sane aT The beginning, buT as The play confinued The audience became aware of Their insaniTy. SchuberT 's LasT Sere- nade , dlrecfed by John Bloedorn, involved an off beaf young couple aT an eleganf French resTaraunT whose love-spell ouflives all The sfrange goings on aT The resfaraun T. ln January These plays were performed for The public buT wlTh The addiTion of unexpecfed sound effecfs. The wind ThaT nighT blew exfremely hard and kepT The skylighT over The sTage banging, forcing The performers To speak louder. ForTunaTely, The HghTs sTayed on unTil The plays were over and ,almosT everyone had gone home. A casT of approximafely Hffeen sfuden Ts performed an addifional play during The winTer enTiTled. She Sfoops To Conquer . This charming play enTerTained audiences for more Than Two hundred years. Condi- Tions of sociefy on which The comedy was based have long ceased To exisT, buT The merrimenf of The ploT and double meaning dialogue were sTill amusing To boTh The audience and The casT. The casT consisfed of Jusfin Sfone, Gre Tchen Hume, Nm Bowles, Tammy Zambo, Donna Vwckham, John Schoeneck, Sue Mason, John Bloedorn, Greg Holguin, Donna Duvall, MarTha Hosier, Jeff A yres, Gary Cani7eld, ScoTT Binder, and Juan Fernandez. Mr. Powell in his 20Th Cenfury boofs, gives suggestions To JusTin Sfone and Grefchen Hume on how To porfray Their 18Th Cenfury charac- Ters. Juan Fernandez makes up a few of his own lines To amuse John Bloedorn even Though They're in Spanish. DRA MA The casT of The PerspecTive -L ynn Gerfge, woman and cfrec- Tor: Donna VWckham, girl' Ricky Knapp, Henry: Sherry BarTz. moTh- er.' Sue Mason, Mary: Paf McMorrow. nurse: MaTT Deal, mon. The casT of SchuberT 's LasT Serenade -John Bloedorn, direcfory LaJean Carwin, Maifre D'.' Donna Duvall. flower child: Dan Over- Ton, Franz Schubert' Lance Hochanadel. Alfred: Tammy Zambo, Bebey Mike Herf waiTer,' Alan Henson, cook. ki -11

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-5 ,4 Mike Henk Phil Dalke, and Donna Wickham seem fo have their minds on things other fhan practice, John Bloedorn and Donna Vwckham show the sympfoms of the foo- much-,oracfice disease. Morgan LeFey's C Tamm y Zomboj heloers, Gemme Grooms and Becky Ruppel build on invisible wad around fhe sleeping ldng Arthur flwke Herfj. The chorus cheers on Camelofs knighls of the jousf. Guenevefe ls disfressed wlfh her realizallon fha? she is falkng in love wlfh lhe suave Lancelot Krng Arthur Clwke Herfj dubs Lancelof Had Greenj an honorable knrghf whrle fn lhe presence of other characfers, Phil Dalke, Donna Vwckham, and Lance Hochanadel MUSICAL

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as .ffivm Q r Q A5 X M. L Y S W isa g'f..'l 5 k s . . I . kk , ...ar .. .55 ff T , is i ,wylyfbfzvvfss This year's lyceum was dlffereni from lhe pasf lyceums. lnsfead of fhe presenfafions being based on differenf philosophies and problems of sociefy, lhey were career orienfed. Also, lhe ly- ceum was only fwo sessions in one affernoon insfead of several sessions in a lwo day period. The presenlafions were given by business peo- ple from Fon' Morgan area because mosf of fhe leffers senf lo our of fown businesses were re- pied wifh a negafive or no response al all. Ca- reers ranged from accounfing and journalsm fo fhaf of a morlician. Ofher presenfalions were by an arfisf, a phofographer, a veferinarian, a law- yer, and a beaufician, just fo name a few. The people responsible for organizing fhis ly- ceum were sfudenf council members Wendy Kembel, Donna Duvall, and Gre fchen Hume. The fask involved work from Seplember up unlil lhe lyceum ifselli which was held in February. Some commenls expressed about fhe lyceum were.' l really enjoyed lhis lyceum - l learned more Than l expecfed .... foo shorl very inferesfing . . . Mr. Larry Mercer explains a career as an arfisf and also shows his ariisfic abiify. The lyceum organizers - Donna Duvall, Gre lchen Hume, and Wendy Kembel. Mr. Bill Spencer gives some sfudenfs msignr info the Held of journaism. L YCEUM